HTML Tag Remover
Paste HTML and strip tags to plain text in your browser - no upload and no account.
Key features
- Tags, scripts, and style blocks are dropped; the visible text stays in order.
- Output updates live as you edit the input; Copy plain text puts the result on the clipboard.
- Non-breaking spaces become regular spaces; extra blank lines are collapsed lightly.
When to use it
Prefer this when you need readable text from a pasted HTML snippet without installing an editor or sending markup to a server.
How it compares
It is distinct from HTML Entity Encoder (encode/decode entities while keeping markup) and HTML to Markdown (structured conversion, not strip-to-text).
Why paragraphs and table cells can run together with no space
HTML Tag Remover reads the visible text of the tags you paste and joins it exactly as the tags left it, without inserting a line break or space at each tag boundary. Paste <p>One</p><p>Two</p><p>Three</p> and the result is OneTwoThree, not three separate lines, because there was no space between the tags in the source. The same happens with a pasted table - a 2x2 grid of cells reading A, B, C, D comes back as ABCD with no column or row separator - and with a line break tag, since <br> carries no text of its own. If you want the paragraphs kept apart, put a line break between the tags in the HTML before pasting; the tool preserves a line break that already exists in the source. For example, <h1>Hello</h1><p>Strip tags & keep text.</p> with the tags run together comes back as one joined line, HelloStrip tags & keep text., while the same markup with a line break typed between the closing </h1> and the opening <p> comes back on two separate lines instead. Blank lines that are already in the source are preserved too, up to a point: any run of three or more consecutive blank lines collapses down to a single blank line rather than being removed entirely.
Pasting a full HTML page: what leaks through and what does not
HTML Tag Remover removes only <script>, <style>, and <noscript> blocks before reading the remaining text - it does not have a special case for <title>. Paste a whole document that starts with <head><title>PageTitle</title></head> and the title text lands at the very front of the output, ahead of the body content. HTML-escaped text in the source, such as <b>bold</b>, is also decoded back to its literal characters in the plain-text result, so a code sample that shows escaped markup will come out unescaped. Inline event-handler attributes such as onclick or onerror never run, because the pasted markup is parsed in an offline document that is never attached to the page - nothing you paste can trigger a script or load an image.
Privacy
Nothing you paste is saved between visits.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does HTML Tag Remover do?
Paste HTML and strip tags to plain text in your browser - no upload and no account. Tags, scripts, and style blocks are dropped; the visible text stays in order.
Does my HTML leave this device?
No. Cleanup runs locally in your browser. Nothing you paste is saved between visits, and the tool does not fetch remote URLs.
How is this different from HTML Entity Encoder or HTML to Markdown?
HTML Entity Encoder keeps markup while encoding or decoding entities. HTML to Markdown converts structure. This tool strips tags to plain text only.
Why did my HTML entities like < or " turn into plain characters?
HTML Tag Remover reads the pasted markup as real HTML, so escaped entities such as <, >, ", and ' come back decoded to <, >, ", and ' in the plain-text output. This happens automatically as part of the strip - there is no setting to keep them escaped.
Does pasting a full HTML page leak the page title into the output?
Yes. Only <script>, <style>, and <noscript> blocks are removed before reading the text, so a pasted <title> tag is not excluded - its text appears at the start of the output, ahead of the body content.
Can an onclick or onerror attribute in the HTML I paste run any code?
No. The pasted markup is parsed into an offline document that is never inserted into the live page, so inline event-handler attributes never fire and images never load - nothing you paste can execute.